government, possibly s&p one more notch. it's not going over the cliff but the government can't come up with a real decision. i do, by the way, think there will be some kind of agreement over the weekend as your previous reporter said. i think it will be a light weight deal. the biggest thing, brian, is we get to do this in another 60 to 90 days with the debt ceiling. we have a lot of problems and issues but we can't seem to agree on much. >> craig, should we go over the fiscal cliff? >> well, brian, it's not an ideal situation. certainly i think if you could have both sides of the aisle rise above, as you guys have said, and come to some kind of a balanced deal, it would be great. given the alternatives right now, it's not that bad of a deal because if you look long term, the government spending has been about 20% of gdp. today that's 25%. revenues have been 18% of gdp. today that's 15.4%. it's both a spending issue and a revenue issue. so at least the cliff resolves the revenue issue. certainly it does it more than we need